Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...
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Australopithecus fossils re-dated to 3.7 million years old

New burial dating work at South Africa’s Sterkfontein caves is discussed as pushing key deposits to between about 3.41 and 3.7 million years old. The implications are explored for how ...
Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...
The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...
New research reveals that our early ancestors, the Australopithecus, lived almost entirely on plants and likely didn’t eat meat at all. By analyzing the nitrogen isotopes in their fossilized tooth ...
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